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TIL the NYPD once strip-searched a black man, cuffed him with his hands behind his back, sodomized him with a plunger, then jammed the plunger handle into his mouth. His colon and bladder were severly damaged. The NYPD claimed his injuries were the result of “abnormal homosexual activities”.

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DW1Y TIL a homeless cat sneaked into a lynx’s enclosure in a Leningrad zoo, then the two became best friends
ADlya TIL Guns 'N Roses once went on tour with a car that broke down, so they hitchhiked to the gig, ate raw onions from a field along the way, made it to Seattle for the gig, and when they finished, the owner refused to pay them. They responded by trying, and failing, to burn the club down.
MlLa TIL Australia’s Channel 9 put watermarks across the middle of their video footage to prevent Channel 7 from using their material. It didn’t work.
R78B8 TIL that Mr. Rogers saved PBS from massive budget cuts by giving a 7 minute testimony to Congress. At the conclusion of Mr. Rogers testimony about how he helps children deal with their emotions and to feel special, Senator Pastore proclaimed “Looks like you just earned the $20 million.”
loXn1 TIL that Disney’s “Baymax” character design was inspired by Chris Atkeson’s pioneer work in soft robotics. His research in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute is based on a theory: “For robots to effectively operate in our world, they’re going to have to be as squishy as we are”.